Why CDs Still Matter In The Electro And Industrial Music Scene
Image source For decades, electro, industrial, EBM, synthpop, and post-punk have existed just outside the musical mainstream, thriving thanks to...
Year: 2026
Miranda Cartel interview: ‘Amethyst’, crystals and a decade’s return
Miranda Cartel is the electronic project of Polish artist Emmanuella Robak, who released the 14-track album "Amethyst" on 21 March...
Trampolene share Andy Bell (Ride, Oasis) remix of ‘Storm Heaven’
Swansea band Trampolene released a remix of "Storm Heaven" by Andy Bell on 3 July 2026. The Trampolene "Storm Heaven"...
Adam Filip releases Berlin School album ‘The Returning Circle’ on Cyclical Dreams
Electronic musician Adam Filip released the Berlin School and ambient album "The Returning Circle" on 3 July 2026 through the...
Parallel 33 release dark post-punk single ‘Sowe’ on Mania Records
Parallel 33 released "Sowe", a dark post-punk single, on 26 June 2026 through Mania Records. The track runs 2:27 and...
Diana Ringo releases darkwave and post-punk album ‘Clowns in America’
Finnish artist Diana Ringo released her second vocal album, "Clowns in America", on 3 July 2026. The Helsinki-based songwriter, film...
Kilmarth – Avant De Cèder… (Digital EP – Kilmarth)
This new EP serves as a teaser for the recently released full-length album by Belgian artist Cédric Wattergniaux, better known...
FSP license requirements for forex brokers in South Africa
(Image source) South Africa remains a heavyweight in the African financial markets. If you want to operate here, you must...
Freakangel release ‘Control (Extended)’ EP with four remixes
Estonian industrial act Freakangel have released the "Control (Extended) EP" through Alfa Matrix on 26 June 2026. The seven-track edition...
First Aid 4 Souls release 25-track album ‘Totems In A Field Of Pain’
Hungarian electro-industrial act First Aid 4 Souls have released the 25-track album "Totems In A Field Of Pain", issued digitally...
Tyske Ludder confirm remaining 2026 ‘Weltenbühne’ tour dates
German electro-industrial band Tyske Ludder have confirmed the remaining Tyske Ludder tour dates for 2026, a "Weltenbühne" run of festival...
Endzustand release ‘Maschinenangst’ single and video on Echozone
German EBM project Endzustand release the single "Maschinenangst" on 3 July 2026 through Echozone, issued together with a video. The...
Futant premiere ‘The Third Way’ video ahead of ‘Occultist’ album
US electronic act Futant have premiered the video for "The Third Way", the first single from their coming album "Occultist",...
Kllsignl release debut EP ‘Wendigo’ on Out Of Line Music
Dark electro project Kllsignl has released its debut EP "Wendigo" on 2 July 2026 through Out Of Line Music. The...
Montréal synth project No release album ‘Escaping Heaven’
The Montréal solo project No has released the album "Escaping Heaven", a 12-track record issued on 8 June 2026 as...
The House of Love announce 2026 London concert at Scala
The House of Love have confirmed a headline London concert at Scala on 6 December 2026. Promoter AGMP has the...
Lords of Acid release ‘Dream Boy’ video and add October US tour dates
Belgian electronic dance act Lords of Acid have released a music video for "Dream Boy", the single issued through Metropolis...
Lone Assembly sign to Metropolis Records for ‘Knots & Chains’ CD and vinyl
Swiss post-punk and darkwave band Lone Assembly have signed to Metropolis Records, which will release CD and vinyl editions of...
Karin Park interview: ‘EVO’, evolution and the cost of becoming
Swedish-Norwegian artist Karin Park released her EP "EVO" on 8 May 2026, the first part of a three-part cycle she...
enter.me releases new single ‘When Love and Fear Collide’ on Town & Towers
Danish electropop project enter.me releases the new single "When Love and Fear Collide" on 3 July 2026 through Town &...
DJ Moderno reworks post-punk classics on mashup album ‘Dark Sessions Vol. I’
Spanish producer DJ Moderno self-released "Dark Sessions Vol. I", a five-track mashup album that reworks post-punk and new wave songs...
GIO shares double A-side ‘I Am Crying / Holy War’ ahead of ‘Sanctified Hunger’
GIO, the gothic rock project of Georgia-based singer-songwriter Blake Carpenter, released the double A-side single "I Am Crying / Holy...
Shadowlands festival announces initial 2027 line-up for Canterbury debut
Shadowlands festival will hold its first edition from 1 to 4 July 2027 at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury,...
Keiji Haino and Steve Noble’s ‘Cafe OTO’ arrives on CD via Cold Spring
Cold Spring releases "Cafe OTO", a live album by Keiji Haino and Steve Noble, on CD on 17 July 2026....
IAMX announce the 2026 ‘Recollections Tour’ across Europe
IAMX, the solo project of Chris Corner, have announced the Recollections Tour, a European run that mixes darkwave, synthpop and...
Chiron return with ‘A Dark Beauty’, out 17 July on Dark Vinyl Records
Melbourne darkwave act Chiron release their new album "A Dark Beauty" on 17 July 2026 through Germany's Dark Vinyl Records....
Gnoomes announce new album ‘Losey’ on Rocket Recordings and share the title track
Gnoomes have set a release date for "Losey", the new album from the psych and electronic duo who formed in...
Hands Label Night Berlin at Urban Spree: rhythm, ritual and the body under pressure
The summer edition of Hands Label Night Berlin felt like a very different organism from the January one. I do...
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Sotz – The Shadow Of The Torturer (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
“The Shadow Of The Torturer” is a Franco-Belgian collaboration between Gwenn Trémorin (Flint Glass) and Herman Klapholz (Ah Cama-Sotz). Both...
Gjöll – On The Forgetting Of Language (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
The first album by the Icelandic duo Gjöll was released in 2006. Several other albums followed, but with “On The...
Diary of Dreams as an electronic duet: back to the roots, or the new reality?
Diary of Dreams have announced a new live format. Adrian Hates and Felix Wunderer will appear on selected international stages...
‘We Are The Beautiful’ 4CD box charts two decades of shoegaze
Cherry Red Records collects two decades of shoegaze on "We Are The Beautiful", a 4CD box set of 67 tracks...
Lords of Acid announce ‘Cheeky Freaky Tour – Pt. 2’ with 15 US dates
Belgian-American act Lords of Acid have announced the "Cheeky Freaky Tour - Pt. 2", a run of 15 US dates...
Bliss My Heart and Cliff Estatof release post-punk single ‘Love Lies’ with Frank Ferrer
Bliss My Heart and Cliff Estatof, the Paris-based post-punk duo, have released the single "Love Lies" through Cleopatra Records. The...
Die In Eclipse, the new project of Darkrad’s Jana Komaritsa, releases debut EP ‘Sexwave’
Die In Eclipse, the new EBM and darkwave project of Darkrad's Jana Komaritsa, has released its debut EP "Sexwave," pairing...
Ecce Shnak premiere new video for ‘Eddie, Legalistic Homeslice’
Ecce Shnak, a five-piece art-rock band from New York City, have released the video for "Eddie, Legalistic Homeslice", the second...
Ben Christo interview: The Sisters of Mercy, Diamond Black and the discipline of dark, gritty melody
Ben Christo is a guitarist who has learned that volume is rarely the most dangerous thing a guitar can do....
Bunadox returns with dark synth single ‘The Prism’
Bunadox, the Seattle dark synth project led by sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Hans Twite, released the single "The Prism" on...
Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik share 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records
Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik, two German electro and EBM projects, have released a four-track 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records. The...
Mildreda team up with Suicide Commando on new single ‘Virtual Goddess’
Belgian dark electro project Mildreda, the work of Jan Dewulf, release the single "Virtual Goddess" on July 1, 2026 via...
AD:keY live at the Front 242 ‘Black Out’ release party in Berlin
Urban Spree was the right place for this night. Not just because it is a good venue for dark electronic...
Bleu Reine releases new single ‘Cavalier Seul’ on Géographie
Bleu Reine's "Cavalier Seul" is the newest single from the Paris dream pop project of singer and producer Léa Lotz,...
Ukrainian project BlazerJacket release single ‘Cyberpunk’ with official AMV
BlazerJacket, the Ukrainian cyberpunk and industrial project of Denis Cherryman and Hybri.Mod, released the single "Cyberpunk" on June 19, 2026....
Martyrmachine interview: ‘Efficiency Justifies Everything’, Łódź and live drums
Martyrmachine are an EBM and electro-industrial duo from Łódź, Poland, whose new album "Efficiency Justifies Everything" arrived on 26 June...
The Rorschach Garden – Trust The Process (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Meanwhile, it has been nearly forty years since Philipp Münch founded The Rorschach Garden. More than thirty albums later, and...
j:dead returns with eighth 2026 single ‘Draws My Blood’
j:dead, the UK industrial and gothic-rock project of Jay Taylor, releases the single "Draws My Blood" on July 3, 2026...
The Most Common Online Security Mistakes People Still Make in 2026
There is one truth people should face regarding cybersecurity in 2026: the success rate of the most popular cyberattacks is...
The Wolfgang Press announce new album ‘Asylum Variations’ on Downwards
The Wolfgang Press, the London post-punk group, will release their new album "Asylum Variations" on September 25, 2026 through Downwards...
Pet Shop Boys announce ‘Dreamworld’ German support acts for July 2026
Pet Shop Boys have announced the support acts for the German dates of their "Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live" tour....
Empires in Defeat reissue electro-industrial single ‘March of Death’
Empires in Defeat, the electro-industrial and aggrotech project of Mathew Bonehead, have reissued the single "March of Death" through the...
BlakLight share Fictional remix of ‘The Haunting of Us’
BlakLight, the Los Angeles dark synthpop trio, release "The Haunting of Us - Fictional Remix" on July 3, 2026 across...
Vampire Valentine set second single ‘Cutting Ties’ for July 10 on Morella Records
Vampire Valentine, the darkwave band from Newcastle upon Tyne, will release their second single "Cutting Ties" on July 10, 2026...
Själens Dialektik release coldwave double single ‘Money and the Power / Sex Machines’
Själens Dialektik, the Stockholm post-punk, coldwave and electro project, released the double single "Money and the Power / Sex Machines"...
Dream in castles release dark electronic single ‘synesthesia’
Dream in castles, an electronic project, self-released the single "synesthesia" on June 27, 2026. The Dream in castles "synesthesia" single...
Prometheus Flame release second album ‘Children Of A Lesser God’ on DWA
Prometheus Flame, the Greek dark electro act, released their second album "Children Of A Lesser God" on May 29, 2026...
Gipsy Fiorucci releases the video for new single ‘Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra)’
Italian singer-songwriter Gipsy Fiorucci released the video for "Dea Madre Terra (Alkemic Mantra)" on June 29, 2026, premiering it on...
Xenturion Prime release new single ‘Halcyon’ on Progress Productions
Xenturion Prime, the Swedish-Norwegian powersynth trio, released the digital single "Halcyon" on June 27, 2026 through Progress Productions. The one-track...
The Violent Youth – Tsvety (Digital/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Artoffact Records)
Over the last ten years, The Violent Youth, the project led by Belarusian musician Arthur Tsymbal and joined by his...
Sun Ra and Merzbow ‘Strange City’ reissued as expanded 2CD on Cold Spring
Cold Spring reissues "Strange City", the collaboration between Sun Ra and Merzbow, as an expanded 2CD on June 26, 2026....
I Ya Toyah releases industrial-rock single and video ‘Apology’ on Femme Fatale Records
I Ya Toyah, the Chicago industrial artist, released the single "Apology" on June 26, 2026 through her own Femme Fatale...
Heimstatt Yipotash – Belt To Blender (Digital EP – Hands)
André Matthes and Thomas Niedballa present a kind of addendum with this EP, following their fantastic 2020 album “Brinkmanship”. It...
Hybryds – Desert Of White Salt (Digital Album – 3RIOART)
Hybryds remains an extremely active project that released its first production 40 years ago. Throughout the years, Sandy Nijs, aka...
Sam Rosenthal releases solo ambient album ‘The Width of Shadows’ on Projekt
Sam Rosenthal, founder of Projekt Records and the band Black Tape For A Blue Girl, has released "The Width of...
Ataraxia interview: ‘We don’t set ourselves against something; we act creatively to create something’
For more than three decades, Ataraxia has been regarded as both a household name and a cult act within the...
Aesthetische release anti-extremism EP ‘Every Beat Matters’ on Alfa Matrix
Aesthetische, the Brazilian electronic duo, released the digital EP "Every Beat Matters" on June 26, 2026 through Alfa Matrix. The...
Unter Null collects ‘The Failure Epiphany’ era on ‘The Rise From Ruin (and the Ritual of Becoming)’ 2CD – Out now
Alfa Matrix has released Unter Null’s "The Rise From Ruin (and the Ritual of Becoming)" on June 26, 2026 as...
